Original post 8 September 2019 updated :

In High Street Armadale, opposite where Sotheby’s used to be – yes it’s #ArtDeco like it says, but a bit 30s Modernist too- since it’s by Seabrook & Fildes who brought a Dutch bricky kind of Modernism to Victoria with Macrob Girls High in 1934.

This is 1938, and a very unusual development of shops at the front and flats above and behind accessed by a side garden. I just peeked in the windows of the shop – there’s lots of Art Deco goodies inside.

From real estate ads seems the flats are now offices, and at some point the bricks on that side were given a thin render and sort of cages for ‘private’ gardens (I doubt they’re original), and the interior shown in the one ad I could find is horribly done over.

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